CVE-2024-25260 - OpenCVE

elfutils v0.189 was discovered to contain a NULL pointer dereference via the handle_verdef() function at readelf.c.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Local

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact Low

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

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References

Link	Providers
https://github.com/schsiung/fuzzer_issues/issues/1
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-25260
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=31058
https://sourceware.org/elfutils/
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-25260

History

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MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2024-02-20T00:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-01T23:44:08.324Z

Reserved: 2024-02-07T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2024-25260

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-01T23:44:08.324Z

NVD

Status : Awaiting Analysis

Published: 2024-02-20T18:15:52.880

Modified: 2024-08-01T13:47:38.247

Link: CVE-2024-25260

Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2024-02-20T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2024-25260 - Bugzilla

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